[Rd] lubridate does not install on FreeBSD any more

[Rainer Hurling]

On 11.01.2012 11:32 (UTC+1), Uwe Ligges wrote:
> On 11.01.2012 11:13, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> With newest R devel
>>
>> #sessionInfo()
>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-01-10 r58085)
>> Platform: amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0 (64-bit)
>> locale:
>> [1]
>> de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/C/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> I get the following error when I try to build and install lubridate from
>> sources on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (amd64):
>>
>> #R CMD INSTALL lubridate_0.2.6.tar.gz
>> * installing to library '/usr/local/lib/R/library'
>> * installing *source* package 'lubridate' ...
>> ** package 'lubridate' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> ** R
>> ** data
>> ** moving datasets to lazyload DB
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> ** help
>> *** installing help indices
>> ** building package indices
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> During startup - Warning messages:
>> 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
>> 2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C"
>> 3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C"
>> 4: Setting LC_PAPER failed, using "C"
>> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'lubridate', details:
>> call: utils::assignInNamespace("+.Date", add_dates, "base")
>> error: locked binding of '+.Date' cannot be changed
>> Error: loading failed
>> Execution halted
>> ERROR: loading failed
>> * removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/lubridate'
>> * restoring previous '/usr/local/lib/R/library/lubridate'
>>
>>
>> Do you have any idea what is going on here?
>
> Yes: locked bindings cannot be changed in R-devel any more, and
> lubridate does that. The maintainer has been asked for an update already.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Rainer Hurling

Thanks, Uwe Ligges and Peter Dalgaard, for clarifying this. So we have 
to wait for an update ...